Welcome to Mubarak bin Mohammed School.

I am Mr. Joe and welcome to my 4MA and 4MD classroom blog website. Here you will find useful information about what is going on in Mr. Joe's classroom for the week. Here you will also find pictures and videos of your students being engaged learners inside the classroom. I have created this site for parents and students to see what is happening in Mr. Joe's classroom.

September 8-12, 2013

Lets begin by talking about what we will be doing in the classroom for the first few days of school.  Students will learn about the schools expectations. The students are expected to follow all school expectations of the school each and every day. These expectations are:

1. Be Safe

2. Be Kind and Respectful

3. Be Responsible

4. Be a Leader

The students will be learning about what each of these expectations are to make sure we have a positive and successful school year.

Technology in the Classroom

Students will be using all different types of technology within the classroom. The students will also be expected to use computers/internet at home to complete certain assignments. Parents will also be involved within their students learning by checking their behavior/homework on the following web sites:

www.classdojo.com

Classdojo is a helpful website where students earn point within the classroom depending on their behavior. Students with good behavior will be given point toward rewards. Bad or misbehaving students will not receive point. this is a popular tool for parents to see how their students are doing in class for that day. All the you have to do is log onto scoot pad, enter the students special code and you can see how the student's behavior was for that day.

The next program is called ScootPad from www.scootpad.com Here the students will be able to do homework in areas of English and math that will help build their skills for the 4th grade level. Homework assignments will be given out on Scootpad and students will be able to not just complete their homework but engage in other interactive opportunities the sight offers such as talking with friends, sharing ideas, and even talking with the teacher. I will be sending home handouts to your students with their log in and sign on information.

  www.scootpad.com

I will be sending out all log on information to each of these sites for you to log on at home. please do not loose these log-in and passwords.

This year is going to be a great one. I am excited to meet all of you in the upcoming days and weeks.